Meedo ovtsharenkoi, PLATNICK, 2002

PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2002, A Revision Of The Australasian Ground Spiders Of The Families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, And Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2002 (271), pp. 1-1 : 1-

Meedo ovtsharenkoi , new species Figures 22, 23 ; Map 3

TYPE: Female holotype from Sinker Reef Road, Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve , Albany , 34 ° 58 ̍ S, 118 ° 09 ̍ E, Western Australia (Nov. 14, 1998; V. Ovtsharenko), deposited in WAM .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector.

DIAGNOSIS: Females have a distinctive epigynum, with an anteromedian hood and short atrium (fig. 22) and laterally bent spermathecal extensions (fig. 23).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 4.2. Carapace light brown with dark gray reticulations; abdominal dorsum dark gray with transverse white hairlines, venter white; legs light brown proximally, darker distally. Chelicerae vertical, endites relatively short. All tarsi entire. Epigynum long, with small anteromedian hood (fig. 22); anterior spermathecal extensions bent laterally (fig. 23).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Southwestern Australia (map 3).

Figures

Map 3. Records of Meedo houstoni Main (circles), M. yarragin, new species (squares), M. ovtsharenkoi, new species (diamond), and M. mullaroo, new species (stars).

Figs. 19–23. 19. Austrammo hirsti, new species, epigynum, ventral view. 20. Same, dorsal view. 21. A. harveyi, new species, female palpal tarsus, dorsal view. 22. Meedo ovtsharenkoi, new species, epigynum, ventral view. 23. Same, dorsal view.